blue point

Questions about blue point

What does blue point mean?

blue point means "oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for blue point?

Close synonyms include bluepoint, bluepoint. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue point a common word?

blue point is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.